Evidence-informed research guides to develop staff understanding of reading fluency.

A collection of academic reading material from the first ten chapters of ‘Oliver Twist’.

All icons for the AQA Power and Conflict poems.

A double lesson exploring Gothic settings with a focus on ‘The Little Stranger’ and ‘Rebecca’. All resources are included in the PowerPoint and formatted for books.

A Fantasy fiction lesson exploring the appearance of Gollum to develop annotation and inference skills.

A unit of work exploring ‘Ghost Stories’ and tackling reading skills for individual classes/students. This booklet has room to develop ideas, challenge, and differentiate tasks (we do this based on Accelerated Reader data). Through these lessons, students develop: annotation skills, comprehension skills, decoding, tackling tier-2 language, and many other skills. The final task is a competition where students create and perform their own ghost story based on the extracts and short stories they have read each week.

A collection of over 20 ‘Knowledge Recall Starters’ for KS4 studies.

A creative writing lesson based on the video game/HBO series ‘The Last of Us’.

A reading and writing lesson/mini-sequence based on the events of this chapter of ‘The Giver’. All resources formatted on the final slide.

A reading and writing lesson/mini-sequence based on the events of this chapter of ‘The Giver’. All resources formatted on the final slide.

A reading and writing lesson/mini-sequence based on the events of this chapter of ‘The Giver’. All resources formatted on the final slide.

A sequence of lessons and supporting resources to teach students how to write from their perspective of a character(Jonas) in a novel.

A full lesson exploring how to approach analysis questions on the Spirits in A Christmas Carol. The lesson consolidates knowledge and then encourages students to analyse key scenes.

A simple, yet effective, coded marking system for identifying high-frequency literacy errors across the school.

A fully-resourced, contextual booklet compiling of DURING-READING activities building on the foundations built by the PRE-READING booklet.

A collection of starters and LP2 links for the war poems from the power and conflict cluster.

A 7 week scheme exploring Fairy Tales.

A comprehensive full term’s collection of weekly reading texts. Once a week, students read aloud a selected text/extract and then complete carefully selected active reading tasks based on their individual needs (predominantly identified by Accelerated Reader, but easily adapted to suit needs of your cohort).